urban heat island effect (UHI)
The role of urban vegetation in temperature and heat island effects in Querétaro city, Mexico
... in urban areas and it is increasing at a rate of ...size. Urban concentration of human population causes deep modifications in the city and its surrounding landscapes, affecting environmental and climatic ...
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Urban Heat Island and Vulnerable Population. The Case of Madrid
... The Urban Heat Island effect shows the differences among temperatures in urban areas and the surrounding rural ...the urban heat island and the most vulnerable ...
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A "Trojan" in Climatic Change: The Urban Effect
... the urban thermal effect. Though this effect is undeniable, its importance is a matter of ...the urban heat island effect ...
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Urban green space cooling effect in cities
... In urban areas, this issue has been exacerbated by another modern phenomenon called the Urban Heat Island (UHI) e ff ect (Taha et ...to UHI e ff ect, an urban area can be on ...
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Urban heat islands in Monterrey, México using remote sensing imagery and geographic information systems analysis
... house effect gases, which contribute to climate change, are produced in urban areas (Hansen, ...about Urban Heat Island defined that warm air, containing several contaminants, stayed ...
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Heat island effect related ecosystem services on an urban setting Las Condes case study
... 1 FACULTAD DE INGENIERÍA INGENIERÍA CIVIL “HEAT ISLAND EFFECT RELATED ECOSYSTEM SERVICES ON AN URBAN SETTING LAS CONDES CASE STUDY” Memoria para optar al título de Ingeniero Civil MATÍAS ERNESTO AGUIL[.] ...
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The economic consequences of the spanish Reconquest: The long-term effects of medieval conquest and colonization
... The role of economic and political power concentration as mechanisms for explaining the effect of the Reconquest on income appears fairly consistent with the fact that this effect became apparent during ...
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TítuloAn operational model for the optimal operation of the freeze drying process
... involves heat and mass transfer mechanisms, as well as ice ...uniform heat and mass transfer properties; (ii) a continuous interface with infinitesimal thickness is considered between the frozen and dried ...
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Evaluation of Residual Stresses Induced by Face Milling Using a Method of Micro-indents
... Table 1 shows that, for feed rate of 0.16 mm/tooth, the change of different components of residual stress is independent of the direction evaluated. Therefore, the plastic stretching difference between both centroids ...
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Theory and Principles of Nickel - Titanium Shape Memory Alloy as Smart Material on the Design of Cardiovascular Stents-Edición Única
... NiTi is used for fabricating self-expanding stents mainly because of its shape memory effect and biocompatibility [3.12]. It also has suitable mechanical properties; however stents with this material are not ...
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Determinants of the diversity of plants, birds and mammals of coastal islands of the Humboldt current systems: implications for conservation
... of island biogeography predicts that species diversity is determined by extinction and colonization processes, which in turn depend on the island size and distance from the source (mainland), respectively ...
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Aim MacArthur and Wilson’s dynamic equilibrium model of island
... Wilson, 1969; Diamond, 1975; Heaney, 1986, 2000; Peck, 1990; Cowie, 1995; Peck et al., 1999; Losos & Schluter, 2000; Hubbell, 2001; Price, 2004; Emerson and Kolm, 2005a,b; Heaney et al., 2005), together providing ...
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Effect of Pressure Assisted Heat Treatment on Photoluminescence Emission of α Bi2O3 Needles
... The pressure-assisted heat treatment of α-Bi2O3 with a needle morphology synthesized using the microwave-assisted hydrothermal method caused an angular increase between the [BiO6]–[BiO6][r] ...
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Effect of inoculum pretreatment on hydrogen production in high cellular density reactors and evaluation of interactions between their microbial functional groups
... increment in these two metabolites during the following stages was correlated with the increase in both VHPR and HY obtained for the same periods. Higher hydrogen production was observed one or two days after the ...
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Numerical study of effect of wall heating conditions on heat transfer performance of internal cooling channel
... The impact of wall heating conditions in the vicinity of ribbed wall can be investigated by analysing inter-rib flow field. Figures 8 and 9 display the stream-wise and span-wise velocities at the inter-rib region for ...
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Business plan
... can heat their entire home, and that both the stove and its fuel be environment-friendly; some consumers prefer cheaper stoves that can heat their home and do not respect the environment as much; other ...
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Challenges for future of Natural Spaces of Canary Islands, Spain
... Losing means losing tree cover or part of water resources regulation, so we have to protect forests, creating protected areas for their effect in island aquifers.. Protecting our forest[r] ...
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Combination Parameter Strategy to Mitigate Geometric Deviation on SPIF UHMW PE for Cranial Implants
... of heat application in this stage is that in Geomagic Control X color readings is possible to observe a pattern in the heat distribution of the ...This effect can be originated due to heat ...
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The effect of urban violence on student achievement in Medellin, Colombia
... intensity, urban communities have been or continue to be targeted by armed gangs in countries such as Colombia, Mexico, Honduras, and the United States, to mention only a ...
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Urban Sprawl in the Mediterranean Urban Regions in Europe and the Crisis Effect on the Urban Land Development: Madrid as Study Case
... strong urban expansion of the 1990s in most Mediter- ranean areas was in part supported by the impotence of plan- ning control, in many cases as a consequence of the existence of a strong administrative ...
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